Dan Wool
Composer · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dan Wool is an American composer and sound designer. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, he is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and Anhui China creating scores for broadcast television projects, theatrical sound installations, and more than 45 feature films, including nine films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox. Wool has also composed music for television movies and episodic series for ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and HBO. He is often recognized for his work as a principal composer in the film score soundtrack group Pray for Rain. Wool has also worked extensively creating sound and music for international and domestic advertising and sound branding and also as a sound designer for short films and documentaries, including several for the BBC and Channel 4 (UK). As a music producer and engineer Wool has collaborated with international artists such as Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), Philip Chevron and James Fearnley (The Pogues), Debbie Harry (Blondie), and worked with various bay-area recording artists such as All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, Enrique, essence (singer), Indianna Hale, The Mermen, Kally Price and Todd Stadtman. In the Arts Wool has composed scores and designed sound for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles (sound installation for the exhibition "Windshield Perspective" May–July 2013), Amy Seiwert's Imagery dance company: Sketch Series ("Awkward Beauty" performed at ODC Theatre 2013. Choreographer Marc Brew). AXIS Dance Company ("Full Of Words" performed on U.S. tour 2011/12), Liss Fain Dance ("Speak of Familiar Things" performed at YBCA SF, "The True and False are One" performance and sound-installation at Theatre Artaud 2010 and at YBCA 2011 and "The Water is Clear and Still" performance and sound-installation at Theatre Artaud 2012, Powerhouse Arena Brooklyn and YBCA SF 2013), RAWdance ("Two by 24", a site-specific dance performance at U.N. Plaza 2012), choreographer Sonsherée Giles (Afternoon of a Fawn performed at Theater KOSMOS, Austria 2010 and Temescal Arts Center 2011) and The Tea Dancers/Ballet de la Compasión (Fantasia Mexicana performed at Studio Eight 2011). In 2018 his music and sound design work for Phil Tippett and Lucy Raven’s experimental film OUT THERE screened at MoMA (NYC).In October 2010 Wool performed in composer Jem Finer's "Longplayer" installation, sponsored by the Long Now Foundation at YBCA. In the years 2015 through 2018, he has been engaged by the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swimming Team for ongoing compositional and musical services. Dan has twice been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie Award) for Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text, in 2017 for his work with Liss Fain Dance and 2013 for his work with AXIS Dance Company. In 2014 Dan received an award from Bay Area Dance Watch (Blessay Award) for “Best Dance Soundtrack” Dan Wool is the brother of screenwriter/electrician Abbe Wool and stepbrother to Los Angeles musician Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Joe Strummer) and St. Louis luminary Chip Schloss.
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Biography from TMDB.
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Composer
- 18 on MovieCove · 40 credits in all
What are Dan Wool's films like?
Across their 15 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 3 · Wry 1 · Earnest 11
A split, not a type: Light 6 · Serious 4 · Dark 5
A split, not a type: Grounded 7 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 3
Gentle 4 · Charged 7 · Intense 4
Steady 2 · Shifting 11 · Whiplash 2
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 10 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 4
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 10 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 6 · Full focus 3
A split, not a type: Easy watch 7 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 2
A split, not a type: Resolved 10 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 3
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet7
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Dan Wool's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 18 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (7).
- Tales from the Crypt (1989) · composer · free
- Mad God (2021) · composer · free
- Straight to Hell (1987) · composer · free
- Love, Cheat & Steal (1993) · composer · free
- Tombstone-Rashomon (2017) · composer · free
- The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997) · composer · free
- Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) · composer · free
Subscription and free streaming for Dan Wool's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
40 credits, 18 with a MovieCove page.
Humanzee (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Dead Souls(2025)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Eventos en El Campo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Mad God(2021)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Tombstone-Rashomon(2017)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Scene Missing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Searchers 2.0 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Immigration Tango(2010)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films
Repo Chick (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Dispatches from Nicaragua (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Repossessed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
The Wednesday Woman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
Late Last Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Three Businessmen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Nightmare in Big Sky Country (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Since You've Been Gone(1998)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Standoff(1998)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Perfect Body (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Any Mother's Son(1997)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Perversions of Science (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
The Three Lives of Karen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
A Boy Called Hate(1995)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Her Last Chance (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Pretty Poison(1996)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
She Fought Alone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Floundering (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
White Mile(1994)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Car 54, Where Are You?(1994)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Love, Cheat & Steal(1993)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
Death and the Compass (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Roadside Prophets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
No Secrets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Zandalee(1991)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films
Trust Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Tales from the Crypt(1989)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Straight to Hell(1987)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
Sid and Nancy(1986)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 39 titles from 1986 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Dan Wool's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 23rd percentile, the median of all 17; across their 15 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 24th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th9
Shape of the crowd
12 of their 18 titles are Mixed.
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed12
Reviewers score the sound and music 46/100 in their films, across 11 reviewed titles; fans 66, detractors 33. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Dan Wool's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Dan Wool work with?
People who share at least 2 of Dan Wool's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; David Burton Morris shares the most, 4.
Directors
- David Burton MorrisShared titles: Immigration Tango (2010), Any Mother's Son (1997), The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997), Pretty Poison (1996)See all 4 shared titles with David Burton Morris
- Alex CoxShared titles: Mad God (2021), Tombstone-Rashomon (2017), Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999), Straight to Hell (1987)See all 4 shared titles with Alex Cox
Cinematographers and editors
- Corky EhlersShared titles: The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997), Pretty Poison (1996)See all 2 shared titles with Corky Ehlers
- John L. Demps Jr.Shared titles: Any Mother's Son (1997), The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997)See all 2 shared titles with John L. Demps Jr.
Producers
- Cary BrokawShared titles: The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997), Straight to Hell (1987)See all 2 shared titles with Cary Brokaw
